Eligibility for 2020-2021

Physicals & Academic Eligibility

  • ALL 6th grade students who plan to play a scholastic sport must receive a sports physical and turn in the state approved sports physical form to SSMS. Form must be completed (both front & back). This form is linked on this site.

  • ALL 7th & 8th grade students who plan to play a scholastic sport and currently have a physical that was performed between 3/1/2019 - to present will be eligible for the whole of the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • Students must pass 3 out of 4 CORE classes (English / Math / Science / Social Studies) for the 2020 FALL semester in order to be eligible for any sport after January 1st, 2021. To clarify, this eligibility requirement is based on their semester average, not their quarterly grade.

Effective April 23, 2020

Due to the extraordinary circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in school closures an emergency addition to the State Board of Education Policy, ATHL-001, Interscholastic Athletics, has been approved by the State Board of Education on April 23, 2020.


1. Athletic Academic Eligibility The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA ) uses State Board Policy ATHL-001 to determine Athletic Eligibility.

Any waiver of the requirements should come from the Board. Regardless of the school organization pattern, a student who meets Local Education Agency (LEA)/Charter School Promotion standards for the 2019-2020 academic year automatically meets the courses passed requirement for the first semester of the 2020- 2021 academic year.

This means if the student is promoted in 2019-20,they are eligible for athletic participation for the first semester of next year 2020-21.

To continue athletic eligibility for the second semester they will need to meet guidelines set forth in ATHL-001.


2. Temporary Extension of Valid Pre-participation Examination (PPE)

The NCHSAA-- Sports Medicine Advisory Committee (SMAC) recommends a temporary extension of the time that a student-athletes(SA) 2019-2020 PPE remains valid past the current 395 days due to current and upcoming health care challenges secondary to COVID-19.


Temporary Extension Option: All student athletes who have a valid Pre-participation Examination (PPE) form for the 2019-2020 season will be allowed a one-year extension through the end of the academic year 2020-2021.


An athlete planning to participate in a sport during the 2020-2021 season without a current PPE form:

(date of physical 3/1/2019 - 5/1/2020)

will need to obtain an evaluation/physical before they will be allowed to participate. _________________________________________